Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
The Governors of Several States at
the Instance OF the G. A. R. Pro-
test Against Their Return.
Adjutant General Drum says the Idea
Originated With the Administration
During the Late HrilI.
The President Aftrr Consulting he Law
Orders the Secretary of war 20 Hold
the Flags aud Relics.
A PROTEST FROM KANSAS.

OF the Confederate flags 10 their respec-
tive states. A lsrge number Of Grand
Army Of the REPUBLIC men called upon
Governor Martin -o-dsr. VINO at noon
sent the following .els@-.m to President
Cleveland:
In the name Of u. 80 4.Slsizens of Kansas who
the wST, and in behalf OF all the people OF this
state, enter an Indignant protest against the
return OF the Confederate days captured in tn /.
battles by the soldierspt the republic. ] pro
test against such action an insult to the
heroic dead and an outrage their surviving
comrades. The government accented che Gus
tody Of The flags placed iIiit5 charge by patri-
Otto soldiers of the Union as 4 sacred trust,
and protest that the President of the United
States or any other officer OF the government
has authority, moral or legal. to surrender
them. signed. JOHN y. MARTIN.
Governor of Kansas.
THE PROTEST FROM OHIO.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, June IL Governor
Foraker to day received . telegram from
d. c. Putnam Of Springfield, department.
commander Of the Grand Army OF the
Republic Of Ohio, urging him IL behalf
Of the $1,000 comrades Of this
department to protest to the authorities
al Washington against giving Up the
rebel flags captured By the soldiers Of
OHIO. The Governor forwarded the tele-
gram to President Cleveland and N the
same conjunction said:
"In transmitting the message [ desire
to comply with its request and do most
earnestly protest against The seton to
which it relates. The patriotic people of
this state ere shocked and indignant be-
Yond anything can express. l earnestly
request you 20 revoke the order that has
given such unqualified offense."
The Governor also sent q telegram 70
General BOyptOn at Washington asking
him TO take lega- advice and institute
proceedings to eniOiR the return of the
rebel flags which we're captured by OHIO
troops.
PROTESTS IRON LLINoIs.
SPRINGFIELD, LIZ, June l6.-ReprC-
sentstiyes of about thirty Grand Army Of
the Republic posts Of Illinois met at the
statehOuse and adopted resolutions pro
testing in vigorous language against the
return Of the captured Confederate flags
to the original pOssessors as contempla-
ted in an Older recently announced by the
War Department OF the United States,
and asking Governor Oglesby 20 tele-
graph TO President Cleveland earnestly
protesting against it, and 10 take such
action as may be necessary to preserve
and to protect foc ILLINOIS soldiers the
flags and trophies captured By them il
the war,
wIsCoNsIN'S GOVERNOR PROTESTS.
MADISON, WIS, June l6.-GoVeInor
Rusk, who is greatly reused by the
determination OF the administration TO
return the rebel flags to the original
southern companies from which they
were taken, has sent letter to Adjutsut-
General Drum requesting that The flags
captured by Wisconsin troops IN the late
war be returned 10 the state Governor
Rusk mas also wired protest TO Presi-
dent Cleveland agaiIs. ne return Of the
flags The Grand Army posts in WiscOn-
sin will hold meetings to protest against
the action Of the War Department.
FAIRCHILD AND SHERMAN CLosETED.
New YORK, June IG.-Mail and Ex-
press prints the following General
Lucius Fairchild lad long talk With
General W. Y. Sherman, this morning at
the Fifth Avenue hotel. II is understood
that General Sherman approves OF General
Fairchild's speech last evening. He says
OF the march 10 the sea it was more ami |
mated than usual, and that he conversed |
with an earnestness cut of general keep !
ing with his usual humorous style. He re |
fused to see sny reporters On the ground |
thst he was about TO leave for New |
Haven. General Fairchild, as soon as |
the conference WAS over, came down into |
the corridor looking q little pGley than
usual. a reporter asked about his con-
ference with General Sherman, but he de-
Clined to SAY what the nature of it was.
WHAT PROMINENT POLITICIAN SAYS.
WASHINGTON, June ia dispatch
from this city to the Baltimore Sun of
this morning quotes g gentleman OF prom
inence IN political circles, probably Sec
rotary BsyaTd, as saying; The order is
one of the Dravest, wisest and most pa
trlotic sections ever performed by the ex-
lcutive of 8 great people. By stroke
Of his pen the President has done more
to unite the states and confirm the Union
than precedent prOclamations and legis-
atiOns. There can never be 8 united
people so long as ConquerGrs IN q civil
war glory over the conquered, and any
thing which keeps alive a feeling Of the
once existing sectional hatred should be
wiped out. The act. OF The
President is brave because it
las already aroused the rage of
,rofes sional office seeking soldier organ
zstions and partisan journals, which
ieem in many cases to have no other eX-
use for being than to heep ahye and be
,ueath from father TO son q spirit OF 4
lstred."
ADJUTANT- GENERAL DRUM TALKS.
WAsHIN GToN, June 16-Adjutant-
General Drum is the only person in au-
hority here who appears disposed to
six about the order relstive TO the re- I
urn of the rebel flags. He has u good {
light to spesk for it is quite certain that {
he idea originated with him. General
Drum has these trophies in his charge.
What mis- share in the matter is can per-
sps be best learned from the following
uestions: q
General Drum, you are going :
0 return TO the southern states +
be flags and colors which were :
sptured by the UniOn armies from Con-
sderates in the warp c
Answer: ave are going to return ;
lem to sill the states, north and south" y
ne President has recommended that 1t :
e done, ana am now having full list !.
,ade Of all these trophies in the posses =
ION of the Department. In short time =
re shall have the whole collection so as
orted and separated that we shall be
esdy TO forward to every state in the P
Inion whatever flags belonging to the G.
tate volunteers which fell into the hands
the federal army, and into the posses "
ion of the War Department. am hav- VI
az q complete inventory CT them made 81
Ut with written statements to tell briefly
$ far as known, the history of each trophy 1t
nd the story how it came TO be captured N
Il this literature will be complete and n: